XAT 2018 Inequalities Question (Medium)

Question

If 2 le x-1 times y 3 le 5 and both x and y are negative integers, find the number of possible combinations of x and y.

Optima Learn · Accepted Answer

Given 2 le x-1 y 3 le 5 with x,y negative integers. Since x le -1, we have x-1 1-x ge 2. Possible values of x-1 that can satisfy the inequality are 2,3,4,5. Now check each case x-1 2 Rightarrow x -1 Then y 3 1 or 2 Possible y values -2,-4,-1,-5 4 combinations x-1 3 Rightarrow x -2 Then y 3 1 Possibl

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Inequalities

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